Saturday, August 29, 2015

Stephanie Beacham is mostly remembered today for bitching it out with Joan Collins on Dynasty. Taking her entire career into mind, though, she was actually quite versatile. I’m talking Ibsen and the Royal Shakespeare Company as well as Hammer films and soap operas. I particularly like her early work, where she seems almost a totally different person than her later incarnation as bitch queen. (Oh, and by the way, I much prefer Stephanie to Joan.)

Embarrassing Real Birthplace: Barnet, Hertfordshire (she told people she was born in Casablanca)

Embarrassing Movies

Bad Girls

The Witches Hammer

Schizo

And Now the Screaming Starts! *

Inseminoid (AKA Horror Planet)

* - author has seen

Embarrassing Taglines

Tortured by desires his vows forbid...master of a house of mortal sin!

Schizophrenia... When the left hand doesn't know who the right hand is killing!!

A violent alien nightmare in blood!

A Crawling Terror from the Depths of Doom

Embarrassing Characters

Jessica van Helsing

Vera Slaughter

Felicity Riggs-Wentworth

Letitia Slighcarp

Dorena Petherbridge

Whiffs of Scandal

Playboy appearances

Suicide gesture

Close to bankruptcy

Interesting Tidbits

Partially deaf

Studied ballet

Studied mime in Paris

Nominated two times as Outstanding Villainess: Prime Time for the Soap Opera Digest Awards

Saturday, August 22, 2015

Everyone’s favorite Nordic vampire, Yutte Stensgaard was a bit of a one-hit wonder. She will probably always be known for her role in Hammer’s Lust for a Vampire (especially, for that shot of her topless and drenched in blood). That said, she actually was in some other movies (including the wonderfully atrocious Zeta One), as well as some British TV (including a stint as a game show hostess). I’m afraid I couldn’t find that much out there on her, unfortunately.

Unpronounceable Real Name: Jytte Stensgaard

Obscure Real Birthplace: Thirsted, Denmark

Embarrassing Movies

The Love Factor (AKA Zeta One) *

Scream and Scream Again

Lust for a Vampire *

* - author has seen

Embarrassing Taglines

A bedroom romp through the fifth dimension!

Stripped For Laughter!

TRIPLE DISTILLED HORROR... as powerful as a vat of boiling ACID!

Embarrassing Characters

Gertrud Wickett

Carmilla Karnstein

Flosshilda

Robot No. 1

Number of Marriages: 3

Interesting Tidbits

Came to the UK as an au pair

Became a born-again Christian and refused to talk about her movies (she has since relented)

Saturday, August 15, 2015

Victoria Carroll actually had some real talent as a comedienne. In fact, she would eventually become a founding member of the Groundlings, the improv troupe where Laraine Newman, Will Ferrell, and Lisa Kudrow got their start. Unfortunately, her talents weren’t recognized until she was well into her career. As a result, her film credits are mostly pure eye candy. Very nice eye candy, mind you … Later, she did a ton of voice-over and TV work. BTW, she still looks incredible today, at age 74.

Embarrassing Real Name: Mary Ford

Embarrassing Movies

How to Stuff a Wild Bikini

The Lucifer Complex *

Nightmare in Wax *

Yogi and the Invasion of the Space Bears

* - author has seen

Embarrassing Taglines

The most terrifying plot ever imagined...takeover by clones!

FIGHTIN' the feds... MAULIN' the mob... LOVIN' the sweet things...

Frozen into zombies... doomed to unbearable horrors! People puppets... at the mercy of a fiendish madman in a chamber of torture!

Embarrassing Characters

Dr. Beatrice Bruté

Natasha Godunov

Ginger LeDoux

Bubbles Sincere

Umeela

She-Hulk

Interesting Tidbits

Parents were in vaudeville, with Victoria appearing in their act as the “world’s youngest mind reader”

Saturday, August 8, 2015

Stella Stevens is probably pretty familiar to you already – if you ever turned on a TV during the ‘70s and ‘80s, that is. You may not, however, realize that she has more than 50 credits on the silver screen, including a stint as an Elvis girl and in such gems as The Nutty Professor and The Poseidon Adventure. Her perfect 36C-24-36 measurements probably did more for her career than her acting skills though. That said, she sure did pile up the credits – 140, to be exact. She must have been doing something right.